Wednesday, 10 September 2014

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #293 Because We 'Can' Doesn't Mean We 'Should'

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #293 Because We 'Can' Doesn't Mean We 'Should'

There are a lot of things going on in the world that we need to
question. Unfortunately it will never be easy to find answers to moral and
ethical questions with our different world views, but perhaps dialogue should
be opened and sensible discussion and input allowed. Because we ‘can’ clone
life, does that mean we ‘should’ do it? Because we can genetically modify
plants, should we? Because we can create weapons of mass destruction, should
we? Should scientists be allowed to search for anything they wish to search
for, or should we ask them not to go down some tracks at all? Should we be
looking for ways to read people’s minds? Should we be creating robots to
replace people, while the world’s human population explodes? Should we be
putting people on the planet Mars to create a new colony, instead of cleaning
up the planet we already have? Should we spend our money like there’s no
tomorrow and put countries into economic ruin, leaving it for the next
generation to fix? Should we keep manufacturing, producing, making, building,
like the resources are never going to run out, without thought for the future
and the price our descendants are going to have to pay? There are so many questions with no easy answers,
but I hope today’s Flower at least opens your mind to thinking about these
things, and more.

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I am a writer, emerging artist, quiltmaker and public speaker. My current art installation is a work in progress, titled "1000 Flowers for the Planet". Every day, for 1000 days, I will blog one flower with a positive suggestion for how we can improve the planet - environmental, social, moral and ethical ideas. Please join me on this journey, send me your ideas for further suggestions and feel free to comment. If everyone took up only 1% of the ideas (i.e. 10 new actions), imagine the shift in the world!!
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